Synopsis

Critical: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Critical

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is a platform for Java applications based on the JBoss Application Server.

This asynchronous patch is a security update for JBoss invoker in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0.

Security Fix(es):

• jbossas: Arbitrary code execution via unrestricted deserialization in ReadOnlyAccessFilter of HTTP Invoker. (CVE-2017-12149)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank Joao F M Figueiredo for reporting this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, back up your existing Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform installation and deployed applications.

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 6 i386
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 5 x86_64
• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5 for RHEL 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 1486220 - CVE-2017-12149 jbossas: Arbitrary code execution via unrestricted deserialization in ReadOnlyAccessFilter of HTTP Invoker.

CVEs

• CVE-2017-12149

References